Through the Eye of a Needle

Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include The World of Late Antiquity, The Rise of Western Christendom, and Augustine of Hippo.

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Peter Brown

页数:806

出版时间:2012-9-2

价格:GBP 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780691152905

图书标签:历史基督教罗马古代晚期Peter_Brown欧洲历史欧洲新书

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.

Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.

Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

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反反复复拖了好久。结合大量考古、社会经济研究二手成果，用财富为线索叙述古代晚期不同地区不同教父的观念与社会变化之间的互动。主要贡献感觉在综合，分析人的时候对书信和诗歌材料尤其重视。骨架搭好 将来能填充的应该还有很多。强烈推荐那篇对布朗学术进行介绍的中译序！

扩张的过程，改变他人，也重塑自我。

扩张的过程，改变他人，也重塑自我。